GDC Mobile

Sessions | Speakers | Advisory Board | Sponsors

GDC MobileMonday & Tuesday, March 23-24, 2009

GDC MobileGDC Mobile is the premier professional conference for the creators, publishers, and distributors of mobile games. This event provides mobile game developers from around the globe the opportunity to debate and share their vision of the future of this medium with executives from leading mobile network operators, advanced technology providers, handset manufacturers, and major console game publishers.

2009 is a seminal year for mobile games, with several major new platforms entering the market. GDC Mobile will provide developers with the best information about the evolving landscape and highlight innovation and creativity in mobile game design. GDC Mobile 2009 will feature lectures and roundtable discussions that highlight the nuts and bolts of programming, deals, distribution, and overall game conception with special attention to new platforms: iPhone, Nokia Symbian, Google Android, Limo and Windows Mobile!

The GDC Mobile 2009 program will cover six tracks:

New Platforms
Game Design
Programming
Deals & Distribution
Production
Original Innovation

IGF Mobile Awards:IGF Mobile

Following the success of the first IGF Mobile, a sister event to the main IGF competition, the second year of the festival will feature independently developed handheld games for all mobile devices including cell phones, Apple's iPhone, Nintendo DS, Sony PSP, and Windows Mobile devices.

The award ceremony will celebrate creativity and innovation by indie mobile developers by awarding $30,000 in prize money during GDC Mobile!  IGF Mobile finalists will be announced in January 2009 on the official website.  

JUST ANNOUNCED! Highlighted Sessions:

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The GDC Mobile Advisory Board is made up of seasoned professionals in the mobile entertainment industry who volunteer their time to develop the sessions offered to the mobile attendees. They ensure that the quality of the content is inimitable, high-level, relevant, timely, and represents all global markets, a critical component to the success of the conference.

GDC Mobile Founding Chairman:

Rob TercekRob Tercek
President of Digital Media
Oprah Winfrey Network

Robert is the founding chairman of the GDC Mobile. He has been an executive in the game industry since 1993, and has served as an advisor to the GDC since 1998. Tercek played an instrumental role in the worldwide growth of two pioneering mobile companies, PacketVideo Corporation and Mforma Group, before co-founding PeopleJam in 2006. He has most recently taken on the role of President of Digital Media for the Oprah Winfrey Network.

Earlier in his career, Robert was a senior executive at MTV: Music Television and at Sony Pictures Entertainment. He has supervised the creation of content services on several innovative platforms, including the first satellite TV service in Asia, the first interactive TV services in the US, the first Java-based multiplayer games on the Web, and the world's first wireless video deployments. His credits include online and interactive TV versions of the most popular game shows in the world, including Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune and The Dating Game, as well as the Monty Python game series for PC. He supervised the creative content and marketing of dozens of best-selling mobile game titles, including Call of Duty, True Crime, The World Poker Tour, Marvel’s X-Men, Connect Four, Monopoly Tycoon, Top Gun, and many more. Robert has been a featured speaker at many industry events including CES, CTIA, 3GSM, NATPE, E3, MILIA, MIPTV. He is on the faculty of the University of Southern California's School of Cinema- Television.

GDC Mobile Advisory Board:

Tim HarrisonTim Harrison
European Marketing Director
EA Mobile

Tim Harrison is European Marketing Director for EA Mobile and leads the company’s marketing activities and digital distribution strategies. In his previous position, Tim served as Head of Games & Applications at Vodafone Group and was part of the team that launched the groundbreaking Vodafone live! service. Tim has also served as Chief Marketing Officer at OMTP, the mobile operator-funded industry organization.

Guido HenkelGuido Henkel
CEO
G3 Studios

Guido is a 20-year veteran of the game industry and the acclaimed producer of many award-winning computer game classics, including the Realms of Arkania series, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Planescape: Torment. Starting in the computer games industry in 1985, Guido has been the co-CEO of German developer and publisher Attic Entertainment Software where he oversaw development, marketing, sales, distribution, licensing, and public relations, while making the company one of Germany’s leading computer game enterprises that found world-wide recognition. He has been working on a vast number of titles in both the traditional computer game industry, and mobile industry, and has covered all aspects of the development, publishing and distribution of games.

Vishal GondalVishal Gondal
Founder & CEO
Indiagames

While most kids were grappling with the realities of growing up, Vishal took a head start and started his first company – FACT, soon after finish school at the ripe young age of 16.
In 1999, he founded Indiagames, then a five member team. Today he leads a global operation with over 300 employees and offices in Mumbai, Beijing, London and Los Angeles making Indiagames one of the leading mobile game companies globally. Today he is recognized as being instrumental in starting and growing the Gaming Industry in India.

His other achievements and industry recognitions include being featured among the top 40 Indian entrepreneurs by Business Today magazine in 2001; an E&Y Indian Entrepreneur of the year award nomination in 2004 and most recently being listed among the top 50 executives in the mobile content space by the UK based Mobile Entertainment Magazine. Vishal also features among the 20 Fab Indians to watch out for in 2006 by The Week magazine.

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To register for the GDC Mobile Summit, you will need to purchase an All Access Pass or Summits and Tutorials Pass.

GDC Mobile Sponsors

NokiaN-Gage is a connected mobile games service by Nokia, making it easy to find, try, buy, and play high-quality mobile games. N-Gage offers games by Nokia Games Publishing and the world's leading publishers. N-Gage Arena is a community that enables people to connect and play games with others. www.n-gage.com

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